No sin has ever made any person happy. Sin simply cannot bring happiness, but it can deliver pleasure, andwhen we confuse pleasure with happiness, we are wide open to the seduction of the enemy.
It was St. Augustine who once prayed, Thou halt made us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it finds its rest in Thee.
In the final analysis, the only reason I ant a Christian is that the Father wants to honor the Son.
If we are unconverted, one thing is absolutely certain: We hate God.
If we are to be biblical, then, the issue is not whether we should have a doctrine of predestination or not, but what kind we should embrace. If the Bible is the Word of God, not mere human speculatio...
Hypocrisy has a devastating impact on the life of the church and on the representation of Christianity to a dying world. And
Every time we celebrate the Lord’s Supper in this world, we shouldn’t only look back to Christ’s past accomplishments, but to the future feast that is yet to be fulfilled.
Chance is a perfectly good word to describe mathematic possibilities, but it is only a word. It is not an entity. Chance is nothing. It has no power because it has no being; therefore, it can exercise...
Arrogant worship is an oxymoron, a contradiction in terms. Yet we see it throughout Scripture. The gospel was given to Adam and Eve. As redemptive history unfolded, the people of Israel continued to r...
We come to the origin of the universe through some kind of deduction from the things that we see, or we look to the supernatural revelation that God gives us, which antedates the material universe as...
The neglect of prayer is a major cause of stagnation in the Christian life.
Ministry as a professor at several leading theological seminaries.He is the author of more than sixty
Meeting had been prepared by Drs. Edmund P. Clowney, James I.Packer, and R. C. Sproul. These were discussed in a number of ways by groups of delegates from the Advisory
Ascension, not even the crucifixion or the resurrection. It is dangerous business to assign relative values to the episodes of Christ's life and ministry, but if we underestimate the significance of t...
We have all heard evangelists quote from Revelation: I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him and he with Me. Usually the eva...
Though sin often brings immediate pleasure, it gives no lasting joy.
This is the essence of idolatry: replacing the reality with a counterfeit.
The work of perfecting our spiritual state is called glorification. Glorification does not take place in this life.
The way of suffering was the Father's plan. It was the Father's will. The cross was not Satan's idea. The passion of Christ was not the result of human contingency. It was not the accidental contrivan...
The tongue is a restless evil, full o deadly poison. This was the realization of Isaiah. He recognized that he was not alone in his dilemma. He understood that the whole nation was infected with dirty...